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Patented Deo. 29, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DE KALB TURBEVILLE, OF ROANOKE, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO ROBERT BROWN AND WILLIAM G. FLOYD, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,348, dated December 29, 1896.

Application filed January Z8, 1896. Serial No. 77,187. (No model.)

To all ruf/10111, it may concern: tain upon the pole and in changing such drap- Be it known that I, DE KALB TURBE- ing as may be necessary from time to time. VILLE, of Roanoke, in the county of Rain On the inner side of the front of the cornice 5o dolph and State of Alabama, have invented and at the ends I secure a narrow strip Il, 5 a new and useful Improvement in Curtain having small saw-tooth points on the lower Supports, of which the following is a speciiedge, about two inches apart, and which form cation. hooks for the purpose of holding the lambre- My invention is an improvement in winquin-fringe. 55 dow-curtain supports and has for objects cer- Manifestly the cornice may be of any suitro tain improvements; and it consists in the conable material or design, having its ends prostructions hereinafter described, and pointed vided with the openings for the ends of the out in the'claims. curtain-pole and with the hook-like catches In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective to engage upon the shade bracket. This 6o view of the improvement as in use. Fig. 2 shade-bracket may, as shown,be formed from is a detail view of the bracket. Fig. 3 illusa bar of metal, and such construction is pretrates the cornice in detail, and Fig. 4 is a ferred. This bracket, being in one piece, crosssection on about line 4 4 of Fig. l. may be readily put up and taken down,

The bracket A is made with the main bar always preserves the end arms in proper re- 6 5 A and the end arms A2 A2, which are made lation, and avoids any looseness of the said zo integral with the main bar and extend at arms,as willbe understood. The said bracket, right angles from the ends of said main bar, being made in one piece of metal, can be as shown. The main bar has screw-holes a', cheaply made and put upon the market at a or is otherwise adapted to be secured to the low price. 7o window-frame or other support. In case the shades to be used are too wide 2 5 A The end arms are provided with bearings for the windows, by setting the screw-holes B for the shade-roller and with seats O for back, as shown in drawing of bracket, it can the curtain-pole D, and this pole is made be readily fastened to casing and allowed to sufficiently long to extend beyond the bracket project over, thereby saving the trouble of 75 and it in the openings E in the end pieces F nailing blocks to the wall, or defacing the 3o of the cornice G. ceiling, or breaking the plastering or paper,

On the inner sides of the end pieces F of as the case may be. the cornice, in rear of the openings E, I pro- Having thus described my invention, what vide hook-like catches F', which engage over Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 8o the end arms A2 of the bracket A just in Patent, is-

rear of the bearings for the shade-roller. By l. The curtain-support herein described this construction the bracket operates to supcomprising the bracket having its end arms port the curtain-pole and the cornice, the latprovided with bearings for the shade-roller ter being supported by the curtain-pole restand near their outer ends with seats for the 8 5 ing in its seats and also by the direct conneccurtain-pole, the cornice having its arms protion of its hooks with the end arms of the vided near their inner ends with catches enbracket, as shown. gaging upon the arms of the brackets and Vhile this construction serves to support also, having openings in line with the polethe curtain-pole and cornice firmly in posiseats and projecting in the openings in the 9o tion,'it also permits the convenient removal arms of the cornice, substantially as and for of the curtain and pole and the ready rethe purposes set forth. placing thereof upon the bracket-arms. This 2. The improved curtain-support herein. is quite desirable in the draping of the curdescribed, consisting of the bracket and having t Connecting,` portion and end arms the latter being provided With bearings for the shade-rollers and between the same and their free ends with notches forming seats for the curtain-pole, the cornice havingits end arms provided near theirinner free ends with hooklike Catches fitting over the arms of the bracket and having openings in line with the pole-seats in said bracket-arms and the pole resting in the notched seats and projecting 1o through the openings in the cornice-arms substantially :ts shown and described.

DE KALB TURBEVILLE. VVtneSSeS:

WYATT W. Woon, J. M. ZACHRY. 

